Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Mar 2005 01:38:34 +0100 | From | Julien Wajsberg <> | Subject | Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux? |
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:14:22 -0500, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > > - audio works too. The only problem is that two applications can't > > open /dev/dsp in the same time. > > Not a problem. ALSA does software mixing for chipsets that can't do it > in hardware. Google for dmix. > > However this doesn't (and can't be made to) work with the in-kernel OSS > emulation (it works fine with the alsa-lib/libaoss emulation). So you > are technically correct in that two OSS apps can't open /dev/dsp at the > same time, but there is no problem with multiple apps sharing the sound > device, as long as they use the ALSA API (which they should be using > anyway).
Okay, good to know. Then I'll have to find out why beep-media-player doesn't work with alsa :-)
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